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Iraq
IG Bowen: Expect Details on Corruption Cases Soon
19 Corporate Crime Reporter 44(1), November 7, 2005
Expect details on a grand jury’s investigation into corruption in Iraq.
Soon.
That’s according to Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction.
Bowen told National Public Radio’s Terry
Gross that his office has made “substantial progress in accumulating
evidence on a variety of cases involving fraud and bribery.”
“We've made substantial progress over this last quarter on a variety of
cases,” Bowen told Gross. “I can't go into their details because
there's a grand jury impaneled and the information from that grand jury is confidential.”
Bowen has pulled together agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the
Internal Revenue Service, the Department of State Inspector General and the
Department of Justice to form something he calls the Special Investigative Task
Force for Iraq Reconstruction – or Spitfire.
The Spitfire task force is winding up a number of corruption and bribery cases.
“I expect very soon to be prepared to make some announcements on specifics
about those cases,” Bowen told Gross.
Before becoming special inspector general, Bowen was a partner at Patton Boggs
in Washington, D.C. and was counsel to the Bush-Cheney transition team.
Bowen’s office did not return calls seeking comment for this story.
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